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Ilyas Yesenberlin

Died in 1983

Ilyas Yesenberlin was born on 10 January 1915 in Atbasar, in the Akmolinsk region. An engineer who graduated in 1940 from the institute of mining and metallurgy, he went to the front, then worked in the party apparatus and directed the State Philharmonic; repressed, he was released in 1953. An editor at the Kazakhfilm studio from 1958 to 1967, he then ran the Jazouchy publishing house until 1971 and became secretary of the Writers' Union. He came late to the novel, wrote seventeen, devoted for the most part to the history of his people, and died in 1983.

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